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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of
>>> packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a
>>> mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days
>>> as it wants to emerge 242 packages. One major contributor is not using
>>> a global -cups use flag in make.conf which would reduce it to 178.
>>> That was added to figure out why Gnome didn't see Sups printers at
>>> all. Sure, I would then have to turn on cups for certain packages but
>>> that's OK with me. However I still see cairo, icedtea-bin, virtual
>>> java stuff, alsa-libs, and a bunch of x11-proto files so it doesn't
>>> feel like @system stuff to me
>>>
>>> 1) Where is the 'system' or '@system' specification on my machine?
>>>
>>> 2) If you folks run emerge -epv @system then how machine packages do you see?
>>
>> I believe it all depends on the profile you're using. If you're using
>> a desktop profile maybe that's why it's calling in GUI toolkits and
>> stuff...
>>
>
> Thanks Paul. I hadn't thought of that and I think you're correct. I
> played a bit with changing profiles and then looking at what emerge
> -epv @system would or would not do. It's clearly related.
>
> In the end I wonder if this is a lost cause? If the packages I run
> really require these flags then they are all going to get built the
> same way. I'd prefer that @system was simple and that @world showed
> how I had changed the system to meet my needs, but I'm not sure it's
> worth the effort at this point to get there.
Looking in the current desktop profile, it shows this:
USE="a52 aac acpi alsa branding cairo cdr dbus dts dvd dvdr eds emboss
encode evo fam firefox flac gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde
ldap libnotify mad mikmod mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pdf png ppds
qt3support qt4 quicktime sdl spell svg thunar tiff truetype vorbis
win32codecs unicode usb X x264 xml xulrunner xv xvid"
So support for things like gnome, gtk, kde and qt4 are there by
default. I guess you could take the above list, put a - in front of
the ones you don't think you want and put it in make.conf and see what
happens. :)